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Facial Rejuvenation and Surgery Techniques

Facial Rejuvenation and Surgery Techniques is a research topic within Dermatology. Science Explorer counts 20k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the use of hyaluronic acid and other dermal fillers for facial rejuvenation, including their anatomical implications, clinical applications, complications, and adverse reactions. It covers topics such as soft tissue augmentation, aging face, and the safety and efficacy of various filler materials.

  • Hyaluronic Acid
  • Dermal Fillers
  • Facial Rejuvenation
  • Soft Tissue Augmentation
  • Complications
  • Aging Face
  • Cosmetic Surgery
  • Adverse Reactions
  • Anatomy
  • Clinical Implications
Research works
20k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+34%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
33% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Facial Rejuvenation and Surgery Techniques

This ranks research output and citation impact. It says nothing about the quality of diagnosis, treatment or care.

Which countries lead Facial Rejuvenation and Surgery Techniques research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.3k and 730 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.3k works
  2. 2 China 730 works
  3. 3 Brazil 355 works
  4. 4 India 348 works
  5. 5 South Korea 256 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 218 works
  7. 7 Italy 216 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 199 works
  9. 9 Japan 145 works
  10. 10 Germany 133 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 33.1%China: 18.8%Brazil: 9.2%India: 9.0%6 others listed: 30.0%33%largest
United States1,284 · 33.1%China730 · 18.8%Brazil355 · 9.2%India348 · 9.0%6 others listed1,166 · 30.0%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Facial Rejuvenation and Surgery Techniques research?

By volume in 2022-now, Yonsei University publishes the most Facial Rejuvenation and Surgery Techniques research, followed by Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College and Aesthetic Surgery Center.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Yonsei UniversitySouth Korea 52 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 51 works
  3. 3 Aesthetic Surgery CenterUnited States 45 works
  4. 4 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 45 works
  5. 5 Harvard UniversityUnited States 39 works
  6. 6 Plastic Surgery HospitalChina 38 works
  7. 7 Tsinghua UniversityChina 30 works
  8. 8 Sichuan UniversityChina 28 works
  9. 9 Mayo ClinicUnited States 26 works
  10. 10 University of California, Los AngelesUnited States 26 works

Who are the leading researchers in Facial Rejuvenation and Surgery Techniques?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Facial Rejuvenation and Surgery Techniques include Jost Bruno Jonas, Elie A. Akl and Dan J. Stein.

  1. 1 Jost Bruno Jonas Germany 350k citations
  2. 2 Elie A. Akl Canada 313k citations
  3. 3 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  4. 4 James Thomas United Kingdom 242k citations
  5. 5 Kai You Wang China 224k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Facial Rejuvenation and Surgery Techniques?

The most cited paper in Facial Rejuvenation and Surgery Techniques is "Platelet-rich fibrin (PRF): A second-generation platelet concentrate. Part I: Technological concepts and evolution" (D. Dohan, Joseph Choukroun, Antoine Diss et al., 2006), with 1,875 citations. Next come "Hypertrophic Scarring and Keloids: Pathomechanisms and Current and Emerging Treatment Strategies" (1,452) and "Facial Landmark Detection by Deep Multi-task Learning" (1,446).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Platelet-rich fibrin (PRF): A second-generation platelet concentrate. Part I: Technological concepts and evolution D. Dohan, Joseph Choukroun, Antoine Diss et al. · Oral Surgery Oral Medicine Oral Pathology Oral Radiology and Endodontology 20 Jan 2006 1,875
2 Hypertrophic Scarring and Keloids: Pathomechanisms and Current and Emerging Treatment Strategies Gerd G. Gauglitz, Hans Christian Körting, T. Pavicic et al. · Molecular Medicine Open access 5 Oct 2010 1,452
3 Facial Landmark Detection by Deep Multi-task Learning Zhanpeng Zhang, Ping Luo, Chen Change Loy et al. · Lecture notes in computer science Conference paper 2014 1,446
4 International Clinical Recommendations on Scar Management Thomas A. Mustoe, Rodney D. Cooter, Michael H. Gold et al. · Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery Aug 2002 1,086
5 Automatic Age Estimation Based on Facial Aging Patterns Xin Geng, Zhi‐Hua Zhou, Kate Smith‐Miles · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 7 Nov 2007 979
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Where is Facial Rejuvenation and Surgery Techniques research done?

The largest centres of Facial Rejuvenation and Surgery Techniques research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Seoul (South Korea), São Paulo (Brazil) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Naples, Coral Gables and Dallas.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 206 works
  2. 2 SeoulSouth Korea 156 works
  3. 3 São PauloBrazil 108 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 82 works
  5. 5 LondonUnited Kingdom 81 works
  6. 6 IstanbulTürkiye 80 works
  7. 7 New YorkUnited States 74 works
  8. 8 MoscowRussia 70 works
  9. 9 TehranIran 67 works
  10. 10 Los AngelesUnited States 58 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. NaplesUS · 45.7 works96×
  2. Coral GablesUS · 24.4 works9.1×
  3. DallasUS · 28.4 works6.6×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Facial Rejuvenation and Surgery Techniques than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Facial Rejuvenation and Surgery Techniques?

Among universities, judged by research, Yonsei University, Mahidol University and Harvard University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%30%mean 17.01%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Yonsei UniversityMahidol UniversitySichuan UniversityHarvard University
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Yonsei UniversitySouth Korea 90.523.9%11.7×52 +99.5%
2Mahidol UniversityThailand 73.420.0%9.0×21 +60.0%
3Harvard UniversityUnited States 67.410.6%2.5×39 +19.5%
4Sichuan UniversityChina 65.218.2%2.5×28 +105.7%
5Iran University of Medical SciencesIran 63.125.1%8.9×12 +12.1%
6Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 62.811.6%3.2×45 +39.4%
7Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands 62.019.6%3.5×9 +90.5%
8University of British ColumbiaCanada 61.619.7%1.8×10 +14.2%
9University College LondonUnited Kingdom 60.115.7%2.5×19 +59.2%
10Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 58.75.7%10.0×51 +71.8%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Facial Rejuvenation and Surgery Techniques, country by country

Is Facial Rejuvenation and Surgery Techniques research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 34% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Facial Rejuvenation and Surgery Techniques.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Facial Rejuvenation and Surgery Techniques as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.022% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Facial Rejuvenation and Surgery Techniques0.026% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Facial Rejuvenation and Surgery Techniques over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

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Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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